Today In Cold War History
1952 Puerto Rico approves its 1st self-written constitution
1953 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines De Havilland Comet crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
1956 Morocco gains independence from France
1958 – Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
1962: Russia had considered the United States’ decision to conduct nuclear testing a very aggressive move. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, was reported as having said that the United States was using the concept of nuclear testing as an excuse to carry out aggressive actions. Atmospheric testing began on Christmas Island of this same year (in June).
1966: The BBC is to begin broadcasting television programmes in colour from next year.
1967 Grenada gains partial independence from Britain
1968 Greek, Portuguese & Spanish embassies bombed in the Hague
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
1974 World’s worst air disaster, Turkish DC-10 crashes in Paris (346 die)
1977 Libyan Socialist Arabs People’s Republic forms
1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel was the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Toward the end of its service, the hull and superstructure of Nautilus vibrated sufficiently that sonar became ineffective at more than 4 knots (7.4 km/h; 4.6 mph) speed. As noise generation is extremely undesirable in submarines, this made the vessel vulnerable to detection. Lessons learned from this problem were applied to later nuclear submarines.The submarine has been preserved as a submarine museum in Groton, Connecticut, where the vessel receives some 250,000 visitors a year.
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
1991 – In concurrent referenda, 74% of the population of Latvia votes for independence from the Soviet Union, and 83% in Estonia.

My goal with this blog is to offend everyone in the world at least once with my words… so no one has a reason to have a heightened sense of themselves. We are all ignorant, we are all found wanting, we are all bad people sometimes.